Belarus: Is Solayoh the New Song?

Belarus – Eurovision fans have been waiting to see what new songs Alyona Lanskaya recorded in London recently. Rumours have emerged tonight that the new song she will sing in Malmö is called ‘Solayoh‘. It will replace ‘Rhythm of Love‘. Belarus will compete in the first semi-final on 14 May. Have a listen and see if you think it would be a good choice. Alyona Lanskaya will be the guest on the Romanian final on Saturday the 9th March, and the Moldovan programme the following week on 16th March.

LOL Like I said recently majority of ESC fans love shake shake and bland pop songs but keep speacking about “quality”. Here I see prove of what I said!! No doubt this is an improvement but this is still disgusting parody of J-LO and Paulina Rubio!! Give back the 3 minutes of my life spent on it!! :)

P.S. I can still understand when some victims of the state propaganda keep fighting and swearings but when it comes to fights because of tastes and opinions it is kind a childish! Guys ignore each other! If only I wouldn’t ignore the behavior of some people without identity who think being rude means to be wise and to have sense of humor you would remember World 2nd war here!

Marko I’m sure Jurries will kill it, they always seem to hate Belarus do the Jurries, they’ll end up coming 15th or 14th with Jurry, or even last, but they may creep into the top 10 with the public, if they’re high enough with them they may just finish 10th or 9th overall. I perfer this to Moldova 2011, and some of the past entries sent from former USSR countries.

I like the studio version, and I agree I’m probably one of those people who’ve been waiting for a real shake shake uptempo song this year, that makes you want to dance. But live it could potentially go wrong though, and be a vocal mess, if she’s dancing she’ll end up breathless and straining her vioce, which jurrys will pick up on and mark down. I can’t see the UK giving points mainly becuase of ignorance, aha post of the televoters dont have a clue where Belarus is so dont vote for it, and British Jurrys wont score it highly either becuase its Belarus.

You know what would make me love this entry just that little more if it was all done in Russian, which would kinda be original I suppose, latino pop sounds but in Russian lyrics, would be an intresting mix of styles and cultures lol :D

I really don’t see the latino thing, Scott. Maybe this is why you guys in Europe think of when you think of latino but I feel like I’m really missing something. I could see some beats in Bombo trying to at least ape a latin sound but not here.

aw i see, I latched on to it been latino after it was descibed as latino in the article. Its more Greek/Turkish inspired I’d say, it sounds similar to what you would expect Greece to go sending, opps I hope I dont offend anyone here by saying, that, but the sounds to me are kinda similar, to their past entries.

I thought she would sound better in Russian though wouldnt she, then at least that overcomes poor English, but live I think this entry could potentially be a disaster, if she’s going around dancing too to this, while singing, I can see her been breathless and straining her voice, it could end up sounding as repulisve as Buterflies and Belarus 2003 -2005.

I just wanted to say her accent is so strong that it seems to me that she sings Russian :) I just don’t see this doing well in any case : I think this is nothing special + Belarus has never had biased support. When I heard that she is recording songs in UK I thought the outcome will be something more classy

yeh I wasn’t expecting something which you would normally see Greece, Spain or Turkey sending, I was expecting something like dubstep or contemporary pop we have in this country, or even a decent ballad, but a ballad know doubt with Belarus would be performed poorly. But Belarus, do get plenty of support in JESC from the former USSR, and they did qualify in 2007 and 2010 with even poorer entries, suppose if theres a similar mix of countries that where with them from 2010 this year, in their semi, then they might qualify. And it also depends on whether these countries which voted for them in 2007 and 2010 are with them, not just ones which where in the same semi.

I think JESC is different case as mainly they used to receive points since their JESC entries mostly represented the old Soviet school and they were sang on Russian so people in this area could understand it. But when you look at ESC statistics Belarus and Moldova didn’t have a lot of block voting!

tbh theres only realy Russia and Azerbaijan that are favoured when it comes to block voting in the USSR, its why neither countries manage to finish last or dont qualify when they send crap, such as Azerbaijan 2008 and just picking out one of the examples for Russia, in 2011.

It only seems possible for Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Moldova or Belarus to do really poorly at eurovision, when they dont send good entries. and Georgia and Amrenia have porved they can be kicked out of the final when they send rubbish. but this wouldnt happen with neither Russia or Azerbaijan.

Ukraine has been capable of comming last e.g. JESC 2010,

Belarus and Moldova I think have both come 2nd to last on one occasion in the final, and have ended up donw in the bottom 5 (Moldova 2010).and I think ukraine where like 3rd or 4th to last in 2005?

Buterflies was all bad vocally, one of the guys was flat throughout the whole song, if that entry was sung all in Russian it would have been great, and I’d have loved it :D 2007 and 2008 we can add too really, 2009 so far is the only Belarussian entry i’ve liked, but it never qualifyed :(

I think Belarussian singers don’t mind how thick their accents are…As far as I know accents can always be fixed by working on it…even parrots sound native like so why not human beings? :Dbut the most important thing is to know the language you are going to sing in…If you don’t know what you are singing then nothing can really save you :)I don’t remember any Belarussian singers giving interview in English…maybe Dimtry Koldun :)

aha lol :D but I really wished they’d just sing in Russian, it anoys me, they should be doing that instead of trying to copy what other countries do, and trying sing in Enlgish like other countries, becuase they’re no good at English, it be interesting to go to a Belarussian secondary school to see how English is tuaght, I think I might consider doing that for a bit of teaching experience, in the future :).

But back to the point, Belarussians can sound so much better when they sing in their own language, in JESC i loved their entry last year and Angely Dobra (think that was in 2011), in both there was no vocal problems or problems with English, becuase they were singing in Russian! and Angely Dobra has to be one of the most beautiful and moving ballads i’ve heard in Russian :) So as you can see the Belarussian children out their adults to shame.

I do agree that Belarus has been trying to copy what they think works instead of trying to make their own identity. I guess it comes down to politics and the need to try to prove “we’re just like you”. Same with Azerbaijan, except they are doing it “right”.

I agree. I have always wondered how people are supposed to feel what they are singing when they have only very little command and understanding of the language they are singing in. If it is a shake it! song with ‘Baby, you’re so hot’ lyrics it is not much of a problem imo but if it is a ballad with emotional lyrics, it certainly is.

aw and toggie welcome back :D I’m glad I stayed off eurovision now after reading what wnet on, i’d have probably gone and made things worst, and its another reason why I’ve purposely stayed away from the Bulgarian article, I dont want to upset anyone on there, if I havn’t got anything nice to say and Bulgaria then I aint saying it :)

Aw i know its a lovely language is Belarussian :) here is a link to there charmingly emotional JESC entry Angely Dobra (Angel of Goodness), if you havn’t heard of it, this is probably Belarus’s best entry ever sent to any ESC.

“Solayoh” is not the song she recorded in the UK, it seems that she is in total mess and doesn’t know what she wants in the end with her ESC participation ata ll, she told she is recording in the UK with British composer I wrote name earlier, but forgot now..and she ended with this Marc Paelinck’s song (“Solayoh”)! He is from Belgium and he composed for Chiara from Malta and Xandee from Belgium in 2004, also took part in 2013 Beosong with Maja Nikolic – “Blagoslov”..I suppose she was waiting to see how songs in the 1st semi will be and then decide to send or not “Solayoh” to Malmo…I find that approach very bad and cheating, but HEY HO.. :)

Yes and they always chose the song the last and pick the singer aswell one of last ones!! Can’t they just once orgnize it earlier? Isn’t that cheating? If late choice of Lanskaya is considerd as a cheating I think that method and its dates must also be considered as cheating ;)

Countries have a deadline and till that time they can choose anything they want…Belarussian case is considered cheating by majority because they are changing the song that were voted by televoters and they are doing it all the time.

Russia has been chosing their participants at the last time for a long time,this year The UK will be the last…Are they cheating? Azerbaijan can choose anything they want as long as the rules let them and they will not set the date earlier just because their obsessed neighbours want them to do ;)

Actually the “obsessed neighbor” wouldn’t comment if late decision of Belarus wasn’t claimed to be motivated by the desire to look what others send to pick better option. It was just an example of a country who surely does it. The rules of EBU also let countries to change the song chosen so with the same logic Belarus doesn’t cheat aswell. And I would really ask not to react my comments with such fuss since I don’t want bloody wars here and I won’t answer to the general term “obsessed neighbours” addressed not only me. If you don’t agree to me you may ignore or at-least answer without “adjectives” like that! Thanks!

Did Belarus hold a NF? Yes
Did people pay money by sending sms for their favorite song? Yes
so the chosen song should be the song for Eurovision…I don’t think people went mad and started protesting in the streets when Rhythm of Love selected so why are they changing the song? If they have decided to change,did they ask people? Have they paid their money pack? You can’t compare this with any other country in the contest!

Secondly this place open to everyone..I can comment wherever I want,whomever I want and I won’t take permission from someone whose 80% of his comments are nothing but about one specific country…I can’t wait for the day when your country decides the last because you are following the exact path you love to bash :D

I’m bashing my country much more then anyone else does here! And people who atleast have read my posts in 2011 and this year know it! And yes CANIM comment whenever, wherever and whatever you want but if you are addressing adjectives to me be kind be a little respectful like so far I was with you (even if you find me biased monster)!

I have never had warmest feelings towards Azerbaijan for sure, but when it comes to ESC I don’t have double standards! There can be an obsession in looking for obsession aswell! Well I will talk with my personal doctor about your diagnose this week but for now I’m off to watch Spartacus! Goodnight!

Do they? Those people voted for Alyona and her song didn’t shine at all and now they try to pick better song!! I respect it much more then AMPTV which is doing what it wants under name of 50/50. In 2011 people voted for AYO but jurors whose names were kept in secret picked “Boom Boom” as Armenian entry and we didn’t have the results of SMS-es aswell. This year aswell Toy Planet received much more SMS-es but Lonely Planet was picked by Jurors without any clarification of the proportion of points! And it was done just because Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath has composed it and they didn’t want Toy Planet composed by Gor to win not to bless Tommy’s genuine. Tony Iommi is one of the founders of “Rock for Armenia” movement and AMPTV !!

I don’t find you a biased monster..Actually I find you quite talkable…but your obsession with that specific country you even avoid to name shadows your comments and makes you less reliable in my book…tamam mı canım ? ;)

“dont have the warmest feelings to Azerbiajan”, for once why can’t both Amrenia and Azerbaijan get along! its pathetic in my view, allthough after the mess or vehichle of propaganda in 2012, I’m more leaning to the Armenian side, rather than the Azeri side.

Now thats when it can be called cheating, I think the reason too for the UK revealing the artist late is also tactical, it maybe so our song doesnt get lost amoungst other that are been selected now, so it stands a better chance, but I can’t see how thats going to make much difference if our entry is allready crap.

very very unlikely to be Diana Vickers, and I’m kind of glad, I dont think the rest of europe would get her unique vocal style. If its any former X Factor contestant it will either be Olly Murs or Amelia Lilly, the reason been is that our commentator gave us clues recently on his radio show, that the person representing us has been in the UK singles charts in the past month, and has also been played reguarly on their radio station within the past 4/5 weeks. So its sometone current and well established in the UK hopefully.

Yeh I’d love her as a choice :) i’d hate it to be Olly Murs. Alexandra Burke, Leona Lewis or Amelia Lilly, but if it ended up been Leona Lewis, i’d probably end up geting really passionate and bais, as I love her Ballads so much :D , so if she didnt score any higher than 5th or 6th I wouldnt be happy.

OMG..Leona Lewis would be insane :) I love her so much…The doors to the trophy are wide open for the UK :DBBC has to be smart and pick the right name and hand her a good song! London 2014 here we come :P

I should have made it clearer, those are X Factor singers I’d love to see at ESC, sorry to disapoint,

iydc, I’m not sure about Paloma, she hasn’t been in the UK singles charts in the last month, which is the clue thats been going around, but the BBC and our commentator who has an influence over what gets sent, have close connections with her, she’s appeared many a time on our commentators tv show, in the past, so it could be her? If it was I’d love her todo something similar to her ballad, Picking up the Pieces, which would have been amazing to see on a eurovision stage. And I do like Paloma’s Upside down too :)

An article was posted today regarding that Elitsa & Stoyan were suprised about “Kismet” winning and if BNT approves are hoping to change to “Samo Shampioni” according to an article and conversations on Eurovision.tv

Whilst I can agree that a change in song would be grossly unfair, I can see the motivation behind it. “Samo Shampioni” was clearly the song both the duo and BNT wanted for Eurovision, and it is probably their best (only) chance of qualifying to the final.

Exactly my thoughts! If you have a song you are set on sending to Eurovision, then choose it internally – don’t just put it in a national final with a bunch of other songs you don’t want to win, just to create the illusion of democracy!

“Kismet” is a song that will qualify IMO.Anyhow,the televoters have spoken.TheY voted for Kismet.What Elitsa,Stoyan and BNT(?) want is irrelevant.Plus,If they wanted Samo Shampioni,they should internally select the song.Why bother make a national final in the first place and have people spent their money on a song?

Really? You think “Kismet”, quite a complex and challenging song, can qualify in a semi-final where Azerbaijan, Finland, Macedonia, Malta Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Greece, Norway and Romania all have a very good chance of making the final?

I think “Samo Shampioni”, whilst nowhere near as authentic as “Kismet”, is a much better choice of Eurovision song – it is straight-forward, direct, and catchy. I’m not really a fan of either song to be honest…

Yes,i read the comment you posted later.However,i believe that they have the same chances of qualifying with both songs.It will be a tough semi for them anyway.Plus,i don’t know why people find “Kismet” to be a difficult song.I think it’s quite addictive and unique.And keep in mind that televoters may surprise us.Last year,they voted for songs like Suus or Kuula instead of Lala love or Be my guest.A solid performance can give Bulgaria a well-deserved qualification.

aye Malta and Lithuania where a suprise for me, Malta was a nice suprise that it qualiyed, althouch it was a bit dated, his vocal performance was good, and it was a really feel good entry, Lithuania though I didnt have the same enthusasim of that qualifying, I was realy anoyed that it did.

In my view these are the countries which will struggle in making the cut for the final in Semi 2:

-Albania
-Armenia
-Hungary
-Switzerland
-Malta
-San Marino
-Finland

I wouldnt be suprised to see these 7 be the ones that fail to qualify in away, it just seems typical and predictable, as its these usual ones ( expect Armenia & maybe Albania) which fail in ESC and are underated year after year, (well on some occaisons).

I’m sure Bulgaria will qualify, they’ll have the Greeks, Macedonians, Albanians, Azeri’s, Romanians, Spanish Germans and French voting for them like mad, so they’ll be fine, unfortunatly :(

Aw I forgot that, But Greece, Macedonia and Hungary probably will vote for Bulgaria though,

I don’t what affect it will have on the French or Malteese votes with having additional Jury, and Malta didn’t give overly high points in the semi final, they only gave them 3, and then the 7 came from the final.

well then I hope people like toggie mark Bulgaria down like Belarus then, becuase this is exactly the same thing Belarus is doing, CHEATING! i’ve allready got it at the bottom in my ranking, I wont comment why in detial, but as some of you know I dont like it.

Of course I will ignore Bulgaria due to cheating if they change the song. I have already done this to other countries than Belarus in the past. I do not have a country bias, at least not when it comes to ESC.

It’ll be interesting to see which country gets your 39th and which one will be your 38th, but I can see it probably been Belarus 39th, and Bulgaria 38th. Would you even rank them that low, even Belarus, when they might be more worse songs that could get selected? or ones which allready have e.g. Belgium.

I won’t rank them at all, just like I did with Ukraine in 2010. I didn’t even listen to ‘Sweet People’ before the contest and I won’t listen to Alyona’s song either. There will only be 37 countries participating on my list if BNT changes the Bulgarian song, as easy as that.

P.S. I ranked ‘Sweet People’ after the contest and the song is in 4th place on my 2010 list. :)

its one ballad I loved that year too, the music video is so moving and eeiry too, with setting the location for it in Pipyrat/Chernobly, with connecting the msuic video to the tragedy of chernobly, it made the entry even more powerful, I loved it, it was such an empathetic entry for me, just a pitty it wasn’t as good live as it was in the music video.

yeh that was probably it, the English, live, but still what would have been good was to somehow included the scenes shown in her music video in the background/backdrop on stage, it would have added more drama for me, and made it more powerful, but then thats me been picky, LOL :D

This article implies that Elitsa and Stoyan want to change their song because esc fans across Europe and twitter fans prefer “Samo Shampioni”…Total lack of respect of the official results.They wait for BNT to give them an answer.Needless to say that i have a bad feeling…

they where allready a nightmare for me, if this is whats going to happen, goodness knows what it will end up sounding like, apocalyptic springs to my mind. I was starting to warm to their 1st song its a pitty that didnt get sent, the mix of reggie with Bulgarian sounded a rather interesting mix.

I don’t know a lot about it, but I know about general situation in Bulgaria at the moment…it’s quite chaotic…BNT probably doesn’t care that much for that let’s say unimportant thing, so my personal feeling is they will allow them to change if they want so.. :(

Night everyone :) Probably wont see me till Thursday or Friday got loads of college work to do, if my exam results dont do very well then I might come on here Thursday for some relaxation away from it :D which is looking likley.

So is this going to be the Belarussian entry after all ? I’s better than “rhythm of love” but that matters little..Integrity and transparency when it comes to the belarussian esc mentality are unknown words (well Belarus fails in transparency issues everywhere but let’s skip that..) and I am not willing to support that. As long as there was not an official song change I ranked Belarus, even if it was last on my list. I don’t think I will rank them anymore. Unfortunately the song will stand out big time in the first semi and most probably qualify. As I said it’s not a bad song (unless if they destroy it live – they have a tendency to do so..) and the voters will most probably won’t know or ignore the way it was chosen. Nevertheless I will stand by my principles and ignore Belarus this year. Please try to at least be fair next year !

As for Bulgaria well..Same goes to them. If Elitsa & Stoyan wanted “Samo Shampioni” they should have chosen in internally…I like both songs almost equally but “Kismet” was the winner and this entry should be presented in May..gosh..! The mess around here representes the mess in esc thhis year :P

I don’t know if she’ll have that easy of a ride into the final. Even though she’s in the ballad heavy first semi-final, she was drawn in the second half, with most of the other up-tempo stuff (Ireland, Serbia, Belgium, etc…) and, in my opinion, it ALL better than her song. She probably won’t be last, but I can’t see her qualifying.

It’s an improvement because the previous song was ultra crappy. This is just crappy and sounds typical Eurovision in the early 00s. Now it sounds outdated and I doubt juries will like this since they don’t like happy, summery, up-tempo songs much. In this weak year Belarus will be somewhere in the middle on my list with this song, if this is the real entry that is.

But she can definitely qualify from the weak first semi.Don’t forget the juries gave “Aphrodisiac” a 3rd place in the semis last year. :)
Plus,i believe it’s gonna be “Solayoh” in the end.They released it yesterday in order to get the feedback which has been positive.They were around 30th place with the betting odds and now they are in 6th place!!!

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